After all, we have never had a president who descended the steps of Air Force One with such catlike agility, hands almost as paws lightly bouncing in synchronization with each elfish footstep. Never has a commander in chief so casually, so confidently approached the podium as if he were popping open his own laptop, his jaw almost in Mussolini style thrust out, with eyes fixed three feet above the heads of the audience — all with just the right mixture of self-assurance and canned humility. No wonder that after all that we expect a “four score and seven years ago” that will match the perfect choreography.

Never has a president so mastered the teleprompter — no easy task in itself — with just the right pauses, followed with a timely ratcheting up of passion, punctuated with a half-smile, a grimace, a laugh. Never has a president mastered both the art of empty bluster and the art of bowing. Never has a president so mastered the patois and cadences of an intended audience: with corporate CEOs, he sounds like a Ivy League Citibank exec; with foreign-policy types, he can out-authenticate the multicultural experts with accentuation like “the Taleeeban” and “Pakeeestan.” Among African-Americans, he drops his g’s, affects the slight drawl of the South, inserts an old-time Southern colloquialism, and follows the mannerisms of a Rev. Wright thundering at Trinity Church. Among Latinos, the “r” is rolled, and accent marks fall in the proper places, better than any third-generation Latino evening-television newsreader.

In short, Obama is the most impressive sophist of his age. In classical rhetoric, when the speaker was about to equivocate, he added an emphatic adjective or parenthetical that he was never more candid and sincere. Sometimes he inserted “on the one hand / on the other hand” to show his awareness of every point of view other than his own. Rhetoricians often projected their own base motives onto others, using straw men like “some will say” or “there are those who…”, as if illiberal enemies were so ubiquitous that there was no mundane need to name them all. Obama has mastered all that and more.

He excels especially in the expression of dramatic anguish. His attorney general is “upset” that he had to resort to tapping the phone records of reporters. Barack Obama is torn because his drones sometime kill those beyond the four thousand intended. Obama is so bothered that his subordinates have gone after journalists that he wants Congress to stop him from himself, by passing a law to prevent his own team from doing what he finds politically advantageous. It is outrageous, Obama thunders, that the IRS is monitoring his political enemies — and so outrageous that the person who oversaw the illegal program had to be promoted to enforce the fiscal protocols of Obamacare. Benghazi really was a terrorist act, because the president right after the killings jailed a filmmaker for it, blamed the attack on spontaneous demonstrations — and yet in passing said he opposed generic terrorist acts. Presto — he could post facto claim that he meant all the time that Benghazi was just one of those preplanned acts of terror.

Obama is a hybrid, manufactured in a neatly structured CAD development facility operating between Haight-Ashbury and the New York Times building.

Funded by a thinly veiled cadre of people who believe in two basic tenets.

1) Tell the masses that the "truth" is what you want it to be, not what it is. Because half of them want that and the other half you sic the government on for "reeducation" purposes and selective prosecution.

2) Hide your radical rebellion and overthrow behind the pastel colors of compassionate liberalism. Hide your true intent and never apologize, even when caught red-handed. (and red everything else). Loving the overthrow means you never have to say you're Soros.

As the manufactured hybrid of faux liberal, true tyrant...Obama was made into Pope Prius I. He is worshiped and treated as infallible by his flock of Agenda Media, Agenda Entertainment and Agenda Academia bootlickers.

And, his engine hums like a diva warming up for the big aria finish. "Me me me me me me meeeeeee" every time he is to deliver yet another vacuous homily about the global warming hoax, Solyndra, YouTube videos, or moats and alligators.

He set about to transform America and indeed he has.

Because...from where I sit...I barely recognize her as the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Anyone who had read the Federalist Papers would have seen this back in 2007 when he first appeared on the national scene. From No. 1 by Hamilton:

..."and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants."

It seems to me that Obama's success as charlatan-in-chief is simply because the public has grown so used to a culture that is mostly made up of pretentious performers of no real substance. Actors, TV personalities, celebrities, even those who populate so-called reality TV are all carefully constructed caricatures of actual human beings. easily understood and just as easily dismissed and forgotten. There is no reality, no depth to the culture anymore and those who adore Obama - from the elites who created this culture of negativity and reap its rewards to those who absorb it daily and know of nothing else - like it that way.

Debasement of the language is one of the few tricks the left has in it's bag. The administration intentionally misled the American people about the Benghazi attack for strictly political purposes. This same administration also used the DOJ to keep tabs on the media and keep them in line, again, for political purposes. It has now become clear that this criminally corrupt administration employed a huge and powerful government agency in a massive voter surpression effort. Once again, for it's own political goal. None of those facts are being disputed, the administration is content to merly deflect and play the "we didn't know" game. It is a serious mistake for Republicans to play by the administrations rules, in a vain attempt to find a smoking gun and place BLAME on someone for these crimes. Instead, they should just confront the obvious; the 2012 election was totally corrupted and the results cannot legally stand. A new election must be scheduled and all orders and actions and appointments by the current administration will be suspended. Obama, Holder, et al will continue to play cat and mouse with who was responsible, but they have not denied that these events have happened. These events clearly had a profound effect on the election, so the only honest recourse for tainting a federal election is to void that election (determining WHO was responsible for tainting the election does not make that election any less tainted).

"Debasement of the language is one of the few tricks the left has in it's bag."

And it's been there for quite a while.

“The great misfortune of the twentieth Century is to have been the one in which the ideal of liberty was harnessed to the service of tyranny, the ideal of equality to the service of privilege, and all the aspirations and social forces included under the label of the "Left" enrolled in the service of impoverishment and enslavement. This immense imposture has falsified most of this century, partly through the faults of some of its greatest intellectuals. It has corrupted the language and action of politics down to tiny details of vocabulary, it has inverted the sense of morality and enthroned falsehood in the very center of human thought.”

The Flight From Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information1991, Random House - Jean Francois-Revel

To paraphrase Mark Twain: THERE ARE LIES...DAMN LIES...PC LIES...& OBAMA-SPEAK...BHO is master of ORWELLIAN "double-think"/NEWSPEAK and what Czeslaw Milosz called in his cogent essay THE CAPTIVE MIND~Master of Ketman: A Heideggerian /Humpty-Dumpty blend of murk, mendacity & PRAVDA BS where "words mean what I mean them to mean~Nothing more, Nothing Less..."

Barack Obama speaking but not saying anything, who would have thought?

This is the same Obama who spent twenty years in the pews at the feet of Rev Wright but somehow missed any racist and/or hate America comments while these two items are the basic tenets and are the reasons this "church" is wildly popular in the Black area of Chicago.

Who has spent millions keeping his college records sealed.

Why anyone would have any excuse to believe anything this man says is a wonder!

His poetic cadence can be traced to Frank Marshall Davis, who is Obama's real father. Besides being a Communist party member, Davis was a poet, a writer of lefitst propaganda, and a photographer who photographed Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, among other activities the two shared.